Development

My twin and I invented our own language. Our parents didn’t wish us to become jaded, allowed us our private speech.

At age seventeen, we sat together in the police car. I didn’t say, His body’s buried by the lichen-covered rocks, but, “Ziman hahnt zufu mago nand.”

Instead of nodding, my sister blinked three times.

Mary Baader Kaley

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7 Responses to Development

  1. What a beut of a story! Clever, clever …

  2. Douglas Campbell says:

    Nice, Mary – strange and creepy!

  3. Nice, I can hear them so well….

  4. Sherri says:

    I love this. So much story packed into these few words. Great read.

  5. Erin Cole says:

    I believe this. I have twin girls, and I constantly feel left out of their conversations.

  6. Allie says:

    Fabulous story. So much told, so little space. Very inventive.

  7. Jim Wittenberg says:

    Chilling. Is this why people are uncomfortable around others who are speaking a foreign language?